1801 Legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1806 The British occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
1812 Bankrupt banker assassinates British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
1812 War of 1812: ''USS Constitution'' defeats the British frigate ''uerri
1812 War of 1812: ''USS Constitution'' defeats the British frigate ''uerri
1814 British-American War (War of 1812): The British attack Fort Ontario at Oswego, New York.
1814 War of 1812: Battle of Chippewa - American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippewa, Ontario.
1814 War of 1812: British troops burn Washington, DC, The Burning of Washington.
1821 George IV is crowned king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1827 UK: George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime Minister.
1846 Under the leadership of British Prime Minister Robert Peel, the British Parliament repeals the Corn Laws, replacing the old Colonial mercantile trade system with Free Trade.
1856 Bushehr surrenders to the British.
1860 The British general Lord Elgin - with protestations from the French - ordered his forces to set fire to the huge complex of Beijing's Old Summer Palace, known as the Gardens of Perfect Brightness, which burned to the ground. It took 3,500 British troops to set the entire place ablaze and took three days to burn. Elgin justified the order as retaliation for the imprisonment, torture, and murder of several western prisoners of war, among them two British envoys who had been under protection of a flag of tru The burning of the Gardens of Perfect Brightness is still a very sensitive issue in China today.
1860 The British general Lord Elgin - with protestations from the French - ordered his forces to set fire to the huge complex of Beijing's Old Summer Palace, known as the Gardens of Perfect Brightness, which burned to the ground. It took 3,500 British troops to set the entire place ablaze and took three days to burn. Elgin justified the order as retaliation for the imprisonment, torture, and murder of several western prisoners of war, among them two British envoys who had been under protection of a flag of tru The burning of the Gardens of Perfect Brightness is still a very sensitive issue in China today.
1892 Death of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, second in line heir to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Next in line is his younger brother Prince George of Wales.
1910 In the United Kingdom, General Election held in response to House of Lords rejection of the (1909) budget results in reduced Liberal Party majority (Liberals, 275 seats; Labour, 40; Irish Nationalists, 82; Unionists (the title then preferred by the British Conservative Party), 273).
1927 The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The change acknowledges that the Irish Free State is no longer part of the Kingdom.